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The latest chronograph from the Montblanc Nicolas Rieussec collection is a great reinterpretation of the successful 2008’s chronograph. The new version comes with a reworked dial and an overall appeal. Will be the Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph a worthy follower? We try to answer this question in this full hands-on review.
Montblanc proposes a new Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph as an exercise of maturity. The case features subtle changes, while the dial has some major modification: date position, day-night indication, dial restyling and nice decorations.
Review: Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph
Talking about the Nicolas Rieussec, we automatically think about two aspects: the Montblanc with a vast experience in micro-mechanics from their extraordinary writing instruments and, more recently, their tangible horological pieces and the powerful legacy of the French watchmaker Nicolas Rieussec.
Montblanc is a pioneer in the art of writing instruments since 1906. Their Meisterstück fountain pens are emblematic for the beauty and quality. It is said that every person, man or woman, should have one: inherited, received as a gift or acquisitioned. Having in mind the various collaborations and special edition, Montblanc has a powerful and solid reputation in the world of writing instruments. At the same time, Montblanc becomes, more and more, a big, reputable name in the horological world. The recent 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter LE, in bronze, brings the heritage of Minerva, with a vintage appearance and a beautifully designed movement into a modern time telling machine. Another interesting piece from the Le Locle Maison was the Tourbillon Cylindrique Geosphères Vasco da Gama. With a tourbillon placed at 12 o’clock and the world, divided in two on the dial, the watch is spectacular.
Nicolas Rieussec is the watchmaker who patented, in 1821, a precise time measuring device, under the name of chronographe. A new patent was awarded in 1838 for a simplified and easier to use version of the chronograph.
The Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph in double exemplar: the original design of the French watchmaker and the latest chronograph of Montblanc.
A distinction should be made between the chronometer and the chronograph. Chronometry is a property of the watches on how well they perform. For instance, a chronometer has a very good precision but is not intended to measure necessarily time intervals. For the chronometric precision can be certified by technical bodies. The best known is perhaps the COSC, but also METAS used by Omega, the Qualitie Fleurier or the 1000 hours Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Control and, in today’s reviewed piece, the 500 hours test of Montblanc. A chronograph is a complication, a short-time measurement function, additional to the nominal time display. A chronograph does not imply a precision certification, although the most do have some sort of chronometric certification.
The case, dial and hand
Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph is the latest model from a collection started in 2008 and enriched in 2012 with a second time-zone display via a third hand. The Chronograph passed through several variations, that are easy to compare in this nice overview made on the Watch ProSite. We […]
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